Balthaser Rittenhausen Quotes & Sayings

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you. — Margaret Bourke-White

In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his beard. They didn't teach us the names of the flowers that grew around us in the city - wild flowers of all kinds and all colors. The math teacher used to whip the kids with his trouser belt. My father was constantly violent toward my mother for the most trivial reasons. — Hassan Blasim

We're lonely down here," he said. "It's true. But we're not alone. — Lauren Groff

Saturday is for fears and secrets and confessions and remembrances; Sunday is for logistics, the daily mapmaking that keeps their life together inching along. — Hanya Yanagihara

There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth — Simon Van Booy

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead. — Fannie Flagg

Men and women were doing at their unsurpassed when they were together. It was more or less like the sky and the ground; diverse in nature and was miles apart but they complete each other. — Diyar Harraz

Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me. — Steve Martin

For 'activity in conformity with virtue' involves virtue. — Aristotle.

CORY: The whole time I was growing up...living in his house...Papa was like a shadow that followed you everywhere. It weighed on you and sunk into your flesh. It would wrap around you and lay there until you couldn't tell which one was you anymore. That shadow digging in your flesh. Trying to crawl in. Trying to live through you. Everywhere I looked, Troy Maxson was staring back at me...hiding under the bed...in the closet. I'm just saying I've got to find a way to get rid of that shadow, Mama. — August Wilson

I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data. — Arthur Conan Doyle